River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-30
NEWS AND NOTES.

tHlti 81 NdI. y IN pert NlOtlH I'ldS IT,
General Meade's monument in Fair
mount park, Philadelphia, will be dedi-
Gated Oct. IS.
Henry George, since he has become
proprietor of an anti-poverty society,
smokes 2O-cent cigars.
John II. Starin will soon begin his
free excursion voyages for the newsboys
and poor of New York.
The Swedish War Minister has re-
signed because the Rigsdag refused to
grant his department an extra military
credit
The date of the execution of Max
well, alias Brooks. the murderer of Ar
thur Preler in st. Louis, has been set
for Aug. II.
In making an address to school
children at Sydneyham This day the
German Crown Prince was unable to
speak above a whisper.
Sinclair Tousey, who died in New
ork, Thursday, was the founder of the
American News company. He would
have been y in July.
Mrs Grant has not, rs recently
reported, repurchased one of the
houses in Washington which she trans
fered TO w. II Vanderbilt
The wheat crop of Great Britain has
immensely improved the last few weeks.
and gives greater promise than ut the
corresponding date in 1886.
Messrs. Houghton. Miflin q Co.,
sent fine basket of roses to Mrs. Har-
riet Beecher Stowe on her 18th birth
day anniversary last week.
Cardinal Gibbons has intimated that
the prospective Catholic university will
be located in New York. and not in
Washington, As at first proposed.
The Rev. +. 5. Smith, author of my
Country. lis of Thee, has written a
hymn to be sung at the coming centen-
NAL celebration at Mount Holyoke
Seminary.
The Rev. DR.. Henry NJ Scudder in
tends to spend the rest of his life in
Japan. lie has given farewell lecture
on that country in his old church ut San
Francisco.
Mrs. f. d. f. n. Southworth is IS
years old, has written sixty-eight nov
els, and is apparently good for many
more before death calls her TO lay down
her prolific pen.
The Spanish Senate has voted $4,000
toward the erection of statue to the
late King Alfonso in front of the royal
palace at Madrid, the public to contri-
butte the balance.
Miss ODER, once manager of the
Boston Ideal opera company, has lately
made $50, 900 in little transaction in
a piece of property in Washington once
the home of John Quincy Adams.
William H. Stevenson, Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager of the Bos-
ton, Hoosac Tunnel a Western Rail
read, is only 35, but is looked upon as
the coming man in railway circles in
New England.
Ex-Gov. Hoady of Ohio will deliver
the Grafton at the Phi Beta Kappa cen
tennal celebration at Dartmouth Col
lege this month. He will probably re-
ceive an honorary degree from the col
lege at commencement
Ex-Gov. st. john of Kansas makes
his headquarters dis year at the Grand
Union Hotel, New York, and proposes
to make a summer campaign in the in
terests of prohibition among the Alien
tic coast watering places.
The Emperor of Austria lately at
tended matinee performance for the
first time. The occasion was the rem
dering of patience by Mr.. D'Oyly
Carte's company in aid Of the fund for
establishing in Vienna a Jubilee
Memorial Home fo- British Governesses.
Mrs. Amanda Delmas of St. Mary
Parish has been elected a member of
the Louisiana Sugar-Planters' Associa-
ton. with all its rights and privileges
except the right to pay dues. She is a
creole. and personally superintcnds all
the operations Of her extensive plan
ton.
Ameer AbdurraLmar of Afghanistan
is a pleasant person 10 meet IN an Of
fetal capacity. He administers justice
in person to all of his subjects within
his reach. He has only two sentences
for all offenders: Bekowshid cut out
his tongue-or, ..Gagaya kounid =
hang him.
Arrangements have been perfected
for a submarine cable to be laid from
Vancouver to Australia by way OF the
Sandwich and Fiji Islands. The line
viii cost $4,000, 00O, and an annual